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Re: adj.

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 3, 2000, 1:06
Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> Utakassi' has a lovely exotic appearance to it. I really like the way your > consonant clusters look next to all of those dipthongs. Has it been > shifting? I seem to remember a time when it was Watakassi'.
Yeah, the gender 6 marker has become U-. And I made a silly error. I've abolished <w> and <y>, since they were merely allophones of /i/ and /u/ anyways, but I still occasionally leave them in. The first word should've been _guatiántu_.
> 'tazarai', 'the day when one feels guilty about being inside due to the > weather's beauty but is deterred from doing so by seemingly inconsequential > conditions' is one of these.
I *love* that word!
> imperative: the speaker expects the subject to do this. > negative: the speaker does not believe this has occurred/is occurring/will > occur. > benefactive: The speaker believes (s)he is benefited by the action. > antibenefactive: The speaker believes (s)he is not benefited by the action, > possibly harmed.
Interesting. Is there any way of combining the negative with one of the others? For instance, how would you say "Do not go", or "Fortunately, the trees did not fall"? -- Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos God gave teeth; God will give bread - Lithuanian proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor